The storms come in January, and they come back in February. They dredge the sand off the gravel bars, and the gravel bars are where the agates are, and the agates are where the streams hit the beach. Agate Beach is north of Newport. The name is not a metaphor. The beach does what the sign says, and the sign promises rocks if the tide is low and the storms have done their work. I …

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Today I wanted to write a blog about Amazon Alexa skills. I have been interested in the Alexa program. I have been involved in the Amazon Alexa developer program since 2017. I have completed a challenge held by Amazon, and I have won an Amazon Echo Dot. I have also won a hoodie. I finally completed a skill and won a nice gray backpack that says “Amazon Alexa Developer” on it. You can look at …

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

 I wanted to write about were some Mac apps today. My Macbook is configured with a few more utility software, making it more functional.  istat menus. The program istat menus is good for adding system information to your computer right at the top Apple menu time and clock. You get a lot of information about your disk space, network speeds, uploads and downloads, and CPU and GPU. It’s interesting to have graphs that indicate when …

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.

ebook publishing with apple books write up I’ve been trying to work on an E-book project recently, and I think it would be an excellent topic to write about. When I first started getting into ebooks and how photographers could use them around photography and photography books. I started it years ago, back in 2010 or 2011, And at the time, that technology was still pretty new. Software companies developed many excellent technologies around the …

Landscape and field photograph from Billy Newman’s Pacific Northwest portfolio collection. Open access under Value-for-Value.